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Beginning in January 2011, the Arab world exploded in a vibrant demand for dignity, liberty, and achievable purpose in life, rising up against an image and tradition of arrogant, corrupt, unresponsive authoritarian rule. These previously unpublished, country-specific case studies of the uprisings...

A comprehensive collection of problems of varying degrees of difficulty in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, with answers and completely worked-out solutions. Among the topics: one-dimensional motion, transmission through a potential barrier, commutation relations, angular momentum and spin, and motion...

Long out of print, I. A. Richards's extraordinary 1932 foray into Chinese philosophy is worth reviving for its detached interpretation of the Chinese classics.

Fluctuating parameters appear in a variety of physical systems and phenomena. They typically come either as random forces/sources, or advecting velocities, or media (material) parameters, like refraction index, conductivity, diffusivity, etc. Models naturally render to statistical description, where...

On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women from Canada's...

While many books have been written about Bertrand Russell's philosophy and some on his logic, I. Grattan-Guinness has written the first comprehensive history of the mathematical background, content, and impact of the mathematical logic and philosophy of mathematics that Russell developed with A. N....

From the perspective of a thirteen-year-old, "Your Moments for My Thoughts" is a sprinkling letter of truth inspired by the Word of God. It focuses on some common life questions children ask, such as questions about reflecting their faith, trusting in God, pleasing their Heavenly Father, being mini-ambassadors...

It starts with a happenstance meeting at a city park bench. Trudy Bean meets the very elusive, and mysterious Elnora "Ellie" Chase. With her curious spirit and intuitive heart, Trudy knows Ellie is more than meets the eye, and Trudy will stop at nothing to know more about her. This is a novella for...

This is a refutation of the lies and slanders which the lâ-madhhabî Rashîd Rıdâ of Egypt, who appeared in the disguise of a religious man and wrote against the scholars of Islam in his book Muhâwarât.Disbelievers, that is, non-Muslims, imitate their parents and teachers and do not follow...

Immediately after 1989, newly emerging polities in Eastern Europe had to contend with an overbearing and dominant legacy: the Soviet model of the state. At that time, the strength of the state looked like a massive obstacle to change; less than a decade later, the state's dominant characteristic was...

The importance of the global rural-urban matrix is often overlooked due to urban-normativity. But sometimes agrarian populism and a pastoral rural imaginary result in the equally fallacy of a rural-normativity, as in Jeffersonian nostalgia for a lost way of life that never existed. The nature of rurality...

Seven Wily Women is a collection of short stories about women in a less developed society, who grasp for justice through the only means available to them -their wit and cunning. These women are not your traditional heroines and are even flawed characters in themselves, but their quest is a universal one, and one that many readers can identify with.

The book is about my hard journey to educational achievement. The book further illustrates self-sponsorship without assistance from anyone. It also depicts the process in which I supported myself financially. The book is about my dream, goal, and success. The book also details the fact that a person...

This book offers an original interpretation and close reading of Plato’s Phaedo, focusing on the relation between logos and the soul in order to illuminate the ethical and political dimensions of philosophy as “care of the soul.” Jesse I. Bailey argues that the central issue of the dialogue...